Broom-rack



(No Model.)

J. B. HOUSE.

BROOM RACK.

No. 337,767. Patented Mar. 9, 1886.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN B. HOUSE, OF MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN.

BROOM-RACK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 337,767, dated March 9, 1886.

Application tiled April 20, 1885. Serial No. 162,736. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN B. HOUSE, of Milwaukee, in the county of Milwaukee, and in the State of isocusin, have invented certain newand useful Improvementsin Broom-Racks; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof.

My invention relates to racks or cases for packing and exhibiting brooms and other articles having long handles; and it consists in certain peculiarities of construction, as will be more fully set forth hereinafter.

The drawing is a perspective View of my improved broom-rack, Ashowing it in use as a show-rack.

A A A A are the corner timbers or uprights of my rack; a a, the bottom boards, and a a the top boards, and intermediately are other crossboards, B B, die., which are perforated for the reception of round rods b b, &o., and I have also a floor or bottom, O, to my rack. Vithin this rack the brooms are packed for shipment, a certain number being placed be tween each two adjacent rods b b, which serve to keep their handles in place during transit.

D D are perforated lugs, eyebolts, or staples driven into or secured to the outside of two adjacent uprights, A A, for the reception of the pintles e and f of the show-racks E and F. These racks are of general semi-elliptical shape, and the upper rack, E, is provided with a series ot' holes, e e', extending therethrough, and a series of hooks, e2 ci, depending from the under side thereof, while the lower rack, F, is provided on its upper surface with a number of cups, ff, integral therewith, but the holes or openings of which do not extend through the said Tack. One or more pairs of these show-racks are packed in with the brooms, and then when the case has reached its destination the recipient takes out the racks E and F and slips their pintles into the receptacles D D, and, taking out the longhandled brooms, reverses them and slips their handles through the holes e in the upper rack and into the cups f in the lower rack, as shown by the broom G, until the racks are lled, and then takes out the short-handled brooms, which are made with eyebolts screwed into their handles, and hangs them up on the hooks e2, as shown by the broom H.

As stated, my rack is equally well adapted for the storage, transportation, and exhibition of other long-handled articles-such as hoes, rakes, and other agricultural implements, mops, &c.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A packing and show case for brooms, 8mo., consisting of the frame A c a D b b C, with the receptacles D D and removable racks E F, substantially as set forth.

2. The described show-rack for brooms, 85o., consisting of the frame A A a a', with receptacles D D, rack E, having holes e', hooks e2, and pintles e, and the rack F, having pintles f and cups f', substantially as set forth.

3. In combination with a packing-case for brooms and other long-handled articles, the removable semi-elliptical racks E F, provided with pintles for attachment to the packingcase, substantially as set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand, at Milwaukee, in the county of Milwaukee and State of Viscousin, in the presence of two witnesses.

JOHN B. HOUSE.

Witnesses:

S. S. SroUT, H. J. FoRsYTH. 

